“He’s got great people around him to help him so I don’t see that there will be any issues,” he said.

“I’m sure he’ll do everything in his power to push things forward.”

The Finn backed team-mate Fernando Alonso’s insistence that replacing Domenicali with Mattiacci would not have an immediate impact on Ferrari’s form, although he believes steady progress is being made.

“Even if you change things around, you cannot make a miracle because we know where we are and we have to improve. It won’t change overnight,” said Raikkonen.

“In the rules there is quite a lot of space for improvement. We can find quite big things suddenly. But it might be the same thing for other teams.

“We understand things better after a few races and we have already improved a lot since the first race. Obviously it’s hard to see it when everyone is doing the same.

“I think Bahrain was always going to be one of the most difficult races for us. But we have improved.”

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